Bug#294990: ITP: bontmia -- backup over network to multiple incremental archives

[Reto Schuettel <reto@schuettel.ch>]

Hi

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:53:12AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 03:49:45PM +0100, Reto Schuettel wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:25:15AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > > bontmia creates incremental snapshots of a list of given directories
> > > > over the network by using rsync over ssh and hard links. Every snapshot
> > > > looks for the user like a complete copy of all the files, but as a result
> > > > of using hard links every unchanged copy of a file is stored only once on
> > > > the hard disk.
> > > 
> > > What advantages does this package have over, say, dirvish or backuppc?
> > 
> > I never used dirvish nor backuppc, so I can't really say what the
> > difference are. But it seems like bontmia is simpler than both
> > (especially backuppc).
> 
> Simpler in terms of features available, or simpler in terms of configuration
> for the same level of features?

Fewer features, shorter script and easier configuration... but it isn't
a big difference.

> > I can't really say if that's a reason for creating a new package, I
> > personally would like it, because it's already running on several of my
> > machines, but beside of that, it wouldn't be a big problem for me to close
> > my ITP.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> It's a tricky one.  I'm a firm believer in not duplicating effort, and with
> the existence of at least two other packages which appear to do a similar
> job, I'm just worried that we'll end up with a lot of packages doing the
> same thing, which does nothing except dissipate effort and fragment the user
> base of all of the alternatives.  However, at the end of the day, you're the
> one expending the effort, so if you think it's worthwhile, I've got no
> reason to stop you.

I made a mistake, I asked the author, created a package and AFTER that I
filed an ITP. So, my effort isn't the problem anymore. Splitting up the
user base is one... 

Hmm... I'll try to find a sponsor, with a pointer to this discussion
here. The sponsor should decide if it's worth to upload the package. Do
you agree with this procedure?

Regards,
Reto Schüttel